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I am trying to open Airtable in Chrome but when I enter a url into a browser and hit return, the screen turns white and my Airtable is tab at the top of browser spins as though it was loading.  Then nothing happens.  The same url works on my colleagues computers no problem (by way of trouble shooting, my internet is working fine, OS and browser is up to date and running most recent version, I cleared my cache and browsing history, disabled all extensions).  I can get it to load in Safari but I want to use Chrome (I’ve set up some extensions and automations in Chrome and don’t want to leave this browser).  Not sure what to do!  

We have a master base “template” created with all of the usual requests from a client and different bases per campaign. How can we duplicate a table from the master template to a campaign base with including the formulas? It works when you sync and unsync but somehow when duplicating the formulas are lost. Is there a work around?

Hi community!I'm building a Custom Interface Extension (with Claude Code) and want to add the native Airtable comments section to my detail view - just like you can add it in the Interface Designer.Question: Is there a component or method to embed the native comments UI in a Custom Interface Extension?What I've tried: Searching for components like RecordComments, CommentSection in @airtable/blocks interface-alpha SDK Using expandRecord() - but this opens a separate modal instead of inline display Building a custom solution via REST API (works, but missing @mention autocomplete)  What I want:  The same comments section you get in Interface Designer - with all features like:Inline display (no modal) @mentions with autocomplete Profile pictures Full comment threadIs this possible? Or is the only option to build everything custom via the Comments RES

As you can see below, I want to know if the users can comment with text and attachments, because I saw on the dropdown list for choosing the displaying options. I wonder if the users can comment with text and Attachments as proof or something else, it would be beneficial. 

Good afternoon, I have a database with a number of different membership categories - e.g. Partner, Society, PAHH - and have set up automations to pass the membership details to generate either a form letter (via MAKE) or email (native Airtable) as a reminder that the membership is due. At the moment, I have multiple automations for each membership category for each of the 4 letters required. This is unwieldy, and there is a lot of scope for mistakes with so many automations and webhooks.All the 4 letters for each membership category are the same, other than the partnership category. I cannot work out how to have just one set of automations for these letters which passes the membership category to either the email or MAKE to personalise them. The problem is that some members are in more than one category, so I cannot, for example, use the membership field as there may be “Partner” and “PAHH” in that field, and I only want the reminder to be sent for one category.

I'm using Airtable's MCP server to let an AI agent (Claude Code) build and manage a base on my behalf — creating tables, fields, records, linked relationships, the works. The API is excellent for all of this. But I've hit what feels like a showstopper: there is no way to programmatically configure view sorting, filtering, grouping, field visibility, or field order.The result is that my AI agent creates a beautifully structured base with sequenced milestones, prioritised tasks, linked goals — and when I open Airtable, I see records in an arbitrary internal order that bears no relation to creation sequence or any other logic. Every view needs manual sort/filter configuration before the data is usable.I tried the obvious workaround of deleting and recreating records in the desired order. Doesn't work — the UI still displays them in an opaque internal order. I've added Sequence fields to every table so the correct order is encoded in the data, but there's no wa

I’d like to build a base to track our produce prescription program. We have coupons with barcodes to distribute to the patients. Ideally I’d like the health worker to use a barcode scanner to scan the first coupon and the last coupon for each patient. Then I need to populate a table of all the coupons distributed within that range for each patient. I currently have a table set up for “patients” where health workers would assign the coupons. Then I have a table for “Coupons” where I’d like the records to be each coupon code distributed. Any help in how to do this would be appreciated!

Hi Airtable Community 👋,I’m exploring how constraint-based logic games like Letter Boxed  answers (from The New York Times) can inspire better product and workflow designs especially for knowledge work and team habits.One idea I’m playing with is an Airtable base that models Letter Boxed mechanics to:• Track word sequences where each new entry must start with the previous word’s last character• Automatically validate whether entries follow the constraints• Score progress, trends, and “streaks” over time• Enable different rule sets (daily challenge, team competitions, word limits)I’ve started a base with:✅ Tables for Word Entries✅ Automations to check validation logic✅ Views for Daily Challenges vs All Time✅ Blocks/Scripts for scoringBut I’m running into these questions:🔹 Best way to validate entry sequences automatically?🔹 Should I use Scripting Block, Automations, or

My Airtable usage dashboard shows 881/1,000 API calls, but my third-party connection (Softr) is already returning an 'Exceeded Limit' error. Does Airtable trigger this error before the 1,000 limit is officially reached, or is there a delay in the dashboard reporting my real-time usage?

Have you made a Custom Interface Extension using extension scripting or other options? What does it do, how did you make it and show me an example of it!! 🙌 This is more about the Extensions used in Interfaces but by all means show me your extensions 😎!!

Hello,I have an events table with several events, each taking place on a different date. (Example: Event 1 on January 1st, Event 2 on February 1st, etc.)I would like people to be able to sign up as volunteers for one-hour slots for each of these events.What database structure would you recommend I create?Could I automate this process so that, once an event is created, it populates a new "slot" table by creating x new rows linked to each event, each row representing a different time slot?(Row 1: Event 1 - 9am to 10amRow 2: Event 1 - 10am to 11ametc.)Thank you very much for your help!

I’m building up a base for my team. We have many workflows/processes that occur throughout the year and I want to track them, so our team stays on track and have ownership. I’m starting with one workflow but I’m running into an issue where my workflow tasks aren’t getting automated correctly when it runs for the month. My base is currently set up with People, Tasks, Projects, Process Templates (Where our workflows are held), Task Templates (where I would like the tasks that are associated with the processes held), Runs (when this workflow occurs), and then Workflow Tasks (where the team would edit and keep track of their tasks associated with this workflow).Two Things:1. When my automation runs, its supposed to populate all 7 tasks into the Workflow Tasks so that the team can start tracking them. However its only pulling up 1 out of the 7 tasks even though my Find Record is showing all 7 Tasks. I have it repeated and for it to create a r

Tengo dos bases de datos. La primera, llamada "transmisiones" , hace referencia a varios registros porque deben registrarse en paquetes. También tengo otra tabla para registros individuales donde tengo que registrar manualmente los mismos registros, uno por uno.Lo que me gustaría es que al crear una transmisión y seleccionar varios registros a la vez, automáticamente se genere un registro en la tabla de registros individuales.No hay problema con los datos, ya que los registros individuales están vinculados a la transmisión y pueden recuperar la información. El problema es que actualmente el proceso de registro individual debe realizarse manualmente, uno por uno.

Given the advent of tools like Claude Code / Codex are there any plans to expand API capabilities do allow more complete read and write?  It has been a long standing community request to allow creation and modification of lookup, rollup and formula fields. Additionally, many field attributes are not available (readable) via API.  I think the urgency on this is much higher now. Agentic coding currently require 1) manual extraction of the full schema data to give sufficient context to coding agents 2) manual human intervention to create key field types.This is going already beginning to affect the build (traditional database) vs buy (Airtable) decision. Both the development process and the long term maintenance process are moving to agentic AI, which at current, is not fully feasible with Airtable.   

My DB have interfaces with Tally and Zapier, and they just stopped working.When I try connect it in Tally, it recognizes all DBs in my workspace, but can find no tables in the BD.Even tried duplicate the BD and rebuild the connections, but just got the same message: “No tables found”. But all tables are there, and all data’s there…Asked AI about it, and it wrote about API key and Tokens…Help, please?...

Hi Airtable community! 👋I’m working on a base where I track projects and tasks. I have two tables:✅ Projects – one record per project✅ Tasks – linked to Projects (many tasks per project)In the Tasks table, I have a checkbox field called “Completed”. What I’d like to do is:➡️ When ALL tasks linked to a project are marked Completed, I want a field in the Projects table — like “All Tasks Done?” — to automatically update to checked.➡️ If even one linked task is not completed, then “All Tasks Done?” should remain unchecked.Right now, I’m trying to achieve this with: A rollup field in Projects that counts whether tasks are checked (ARRAYUNIQUE(values) or COUNTALL(values)), A f

Hello! I am a new AirTable user and have spent over 30 hours trying to build a worksheet generator for my classes. Since I don’t quite know how AirTable works, Chat GPT has been walking me through all of the steps. But … it isn’t working and after 30 hours I’m feeling like I should give up. Would anyone be willing to take a look at it and help me?

I have a text field which I’m manually populating with UUIDv7s. This string is time-ordered by the first sequence of characters.When sorting A-Z on this column, I’d expect that to happen. It isn’t. These two entries sort in this order. 019c607b-60d7-72dd-b925-f76680dae347 019c6051-5b66-7586-85b8-c54c63dbf350What am I missing?

Hi,We’re automating invoice creation, and need therefore to create payment reference numbers. I’d prefer to create these programmatically within Airtable.As a basis I wanted to use a autonumbering field we already have for creating unique IDs for the orders. Basically the base number will get an added checksum number, so that electronic banking systems can validate that the payer has entered the correct reference number.I found an Excel formula that creates the reference numbers according to our (Finland) banking standards (have tested, it works in Excel). I have been trying to convert it to Airtable, but I can’t get it to work.ORIGINAL:=IF(ISNUMBER(A2);(10*A2+RIGHT(10-RIGHT(7*MID(10000000000+A2;2;1)+1*MID(10000000000+A2;3;1)+3*MID(10000000000+A2;4;1)+(7*MID(10000000000+A2;5;1))+(1*MID(10000000000+A2;6;1))+(3*MID(10000000000+A2;7;1))+(7*MID(10000000000+A2;8;1))+(1*MID(10000000000+A2;9;1))+(3*MID(10000000000+A2;10;1))+(7*MID(100

Hi everyone!In Airtable Interfaces, is there a way to restrict comment notifications / @mentions so that only Admins can be mentioned (or only Admins receive the notifications)?We want interface users to be able to leave notes, but ensure that @mentions/notifications go only to our Admin team.Any best practices or recommended workaround (permissions vs automations) would be appreciated. Thanks!

Hi, is there an alternative way to send a message outside of the 24-hour window? Our current tagging is "account_update," but according to Meta's new policy, this is one of the deprecated tags. Thank you.

I own a small business with a limited budget. I’m looking a company that can help me build out a Airtable for my small business. 

I had Omni build a Form for users to collect new record information. It has two levels: Claims and Claim Details. I wanted it to allow a user to create a new “Claim” and the continue to add each new “Claim detail record” from this same form. It works in the regular interface, but as a form it only allows the user to select from existing “Claim Details.” Is there a setting for that field that I need to change in order to adds new detail records?

unfortunately there is no way for 3rd party clients to update an existing record ussing forms. it creates a new one upon submission. it would be great if users can click on a link which opens up a partially filled in form > they fill it in even further and hit ‘ update’. updates existing record rather than creating another.

Hi Airtable community! 👋I’m working on a base where I need status updates in one table to automatically reflect in another table — and I’d love advice on the best way to build this.BackgroundI have two tables:📌 Projects Project Name Status (e.g., “Planning”, “In Progress”, “Completed”) 📌 Tasks Task Name Linked Project Task Status I want to automatically update the Project’s Status based on the status of its linked Tasks. For example: If all Tasks are “Completed”, set Project Status to Completed If any Task is “In Progress”, set Project Status to In Progress Otherwise, Project Status should remain Planning Right now I’m using rollups and